NCAA Football 11 Message Board

#sports I have no idea what this signifies, but the fact they're asking is curious. EA Sports wants to know where the band sits in all 120 stadiums in major college football. Band geeks are marching to the rescue. More »

#list As Kotaku's chief sports writer, my most memorable gaming moments of 2010 come entirely within that genre. No spoilers here, but then, the human drama of athletic competiton follows no script. More »

Compared to last year, July's NPD numbers are fairly static, with overall video game industry sales down just 1% from $850.6m to $846.5m. While software sales were down a sizable 8% with newcomer NCAA Football 11 bringing in the top two spots for a combined 667K units sold, hardware sales were up a hefty 12%, mostly on the back of the newly redesigned (and, ostensibly, fixed!) Xbox 360 S. Looks like there was "unprecedented demand," like Microsoft said.

Most notably, that July sales surge resulted in a minor 2% drop in Xbox sales while every other console suffered double digit drops. This, as you can see in our lineup below, has earned the Xbox 360 the rare opportunity to best the Nintendo DS as the best-selling piece of video game hardware last month. To put things in perspective, NPD analyst Anita Frazier notes, "It's the first time since September '07 (Halo 3 launch) that the 360 was the top-selling hardware platform."

While the list of software sales only charts console and portable SKUs, there is one other game that deserves to be mentioned: StarCraft 2. Despite just five days on the market in July, the much-anticipated RTS sold an impressive 721K units at retail in July. Of course when you factor in digital and global sales, it sold a lot more than that.

• 360: 444K, down 9K (-2%)
• DS: 398K, down 113K (-22%)
• Wii: 254K, down 169K (-40%)
• PS3: 215K, down 90K (-30%)
• PSP: 84K, down 37K (-31%)

#glitches We don't all play sports games, but can't we all enjoy the great glitches sports games bring us every year? In EA's NCAA Football 11, YouTube user TheBigCberry probably didn't want his team's mascot to be this helpful. More »

How's year one of the IGN reader/editor football season going? Come find out.

#patch We seem to have gotten things out of order. The first gameplay tuning file for NCAA Football 11 went live this morning, so it was not dependent on a mid-August patch. The adjustments will be incorporated into existing dynasties. More »

Eleven readers and one editor are going "beyond" the typical college football season.

#patch Another large patch coming by mid-August for NCAA Football 11 will address some notorious balance issues with recruiting in the game's Dynasty modes, and deliver "live tuning" for necessary gameplay adjustments without waiting for a dedicated patch. More »

#ncaafootball11 The veteran roster editor Fairdale Kings has published the first fully named roster for the Xbox 360 version of NCAA Football 11. You can now play with real-life player names on all 120 teams on both platforms. More »

#rumor An Alabama GameStop allegedly made a cover of a crying Tim Tebow - who (in)famously wept as Alabama beat Florida for last year's SEC championship - and inserted it into the cases of NCAA Football 11 games on display. More »

#pickem We know there's a certain level of stagecraft and gimmickry to these sports video games picking winners. That said, EA Sports has correctly predicted the Super Bowl, Stanley Cup, and World Cup champion this year. More »

#rosters PS3 gamers with NCAA Football 11 only had to wait one day after release for the first custom, fully-named roster to become available. Xbox 360 rosters are still being written, and we're told they'll be available shortly. More »

When it comes to football games -- heck, the sport in general -- it seems you're either on Team NFL or Team NCAA (sorry, XFL stalwarts), and that's a preference that bleeds into your decision of which football game you get invested in. I've always been a Madden guy myself, but in my time with NCAA Football 11, it's been made abundantly clear that I've done myself a great disservice ignoring the college series.

#sports Not many people game completely offline, but you'll want to be connected if you're bringing home NCAA Football 11 tomorrow. It gets a a day-of-release patch that fixes and tunes a ton of features. More »

Get some pigskin action after dark.

#screengrab Recruiting screen in NCAA Football 11. I'm entitled to post this because I've never once made an error in anything I've published. Also because, Jesus Christ, Tennessee, you got negatively recruited by State over academics. More »

A wonderfully enjoyable game of college pigskin.

#review College football is pageantry, tradition, the gleam of a sousaphone, the wink and tight sweater of a Song Girl. It's also the promises and browbeatings of a recruiting call, and desperate gambles made beneath a sky the color of lead. More »

The next generation of building your collegiate powerhouse has arrived.

#nicknames The return of college football means the return of tradition, pageantry, and the voice of an old friend on Saturday afternoons - such as Brad Nessler welcoming you to another classic showdown between the Death Bats and the Cash Money. More »

#sports In last week's impressions of the NCAA Football 11 demo, we reported that EA Sports and the game's longtime analyst, Lee Corso, had mutually parted ways for this year's game. That's not the case. More »

#coverstory It is hardly a surprise that the NCAA Football 11, due out July 13, does not feature Tim Tebow with the Scriptures written on his eyeblack tape. That's not to say EA Sports has never allowed similar things before. More »

#demo With six additional teams and a slew of custom visuals, NCAA Football 11 released an uncommonly ambitious demo last week. Football is still a results-driven enterprise, and its video games are rightly held to the same expectation of on-field execution. More »

#easports The AP's annual accounting of which college football teams start the season born on third base isn't due for another couple months, maybe, but EA Sports has already ranked them for NCAA Football 11 which releases in three weeks. More »

NCAA Football 11 delivers gameplay and traditions true to each college team.

A look into the next generation of everyone's favorite extracurricular activity.

#demo Those sweet Nike Pro Combat threads in the eight-team NCAA Football 11 demo aren't just for looks there. They're also in the full version, for looks. Downloading the demo gives you access to the alternate uniforms in the main game. More »

#demo Alabama fans are not amused. NCAA Football 11 promised four times the number of teams it normally puts in its demo, and the reigning national champion is not one of them. But Big XII defectors Texas and Oklahoma are. More »

#demo Tigers vs. Tigers. EA Sports told us the third matchup for the multi-team demo of NCAA 11 wasn't going to be traditional and they're right. Clemson and Missouri have played just four times. More »

#demo Another thing the NCAA Football 11 demo is good for is revealing the new fall fashions. I wasn't aware Jimbo Fisher took FSU to garnet and black, evidently to make Florida think they're playing South Carolina. Boy, that'll scare 'em. More »